Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3059] wish: authenticated access for bypassing bans

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting James Cameron (quozl@us.netrek.org):
> Due to a particularly annoying player and loads of complaints, I had to
> ban some subdomains of uu.net.  This has had an unfortunate effect, in
> that many players have been unable to play; not just the offending one.
> 
> Any ideas for how to implement some sort of authenticated access, i.e.
> mark certain character names as permitted to bypass bans.
> 
> Any other solutions?
> 

Ban the domain and announce why it's banned and let the masses from uu.net who
are netrek players deal with him. :-)

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